This month, we are focusing on one of the?Five Ways to Wellbeing: Take Notice –?also known as Be Mindful.

Mindfulness is a skill, and like all skills, it becomes easier with practice. If you have never tried mindfulness before, it may be helpful for you to start small and practice for a few minutes and gradually increase this time. Alternatively, you could begin with one mindful activity and slowly try other activity types.

Examples of activities that you can make mindful:

• Eating – acknowledge all the textures, tastes and smells as you eat
• Yoga – focus on the sensations in your body as you move
• Breathing – focus on your breath with an exercise like?7-11 breathing
• Colouring?– keep your attention on the?colours?on the page, without judging whether the?colouring?is good or bad
• Meditation – observe your thoughts as they come to your mind, but try not to get caught up in them

Ways you can find out more about mindfulness:

• Enabling Services’?“A check in with our busy minds” session?– as well as general wellbeing tips, we’ll be looking at easy ways to be mindful every day.
• Sport & Wellbeing’s?Be Active Meditation session?– Be Active aims to support you physically and mentally. Join their meditation session on University Mental Health Day!
• Action for Happiness’?Mindfulness Made Easy?webinar – this includes simple techniques for how we can make mindfulness a natural part of our lives.
• Apps like?Calm?and?Headspace?allow you to practice mindfulness in your own time.

Read our last SUSSED post on mindfulness?here.